Ashland Oil Spill - A Petroleum Tragedy - Legal and Ethical Issues

Introduction: There are certainly legal and ethical issues involved in the Ashland diesel spill in 1988. Were laws violated in the construction of the tank and by the spill? What was Ashland's ethical responsibility when building the tank, and when responding to the incident? LEGAL Legal Issues: Two legal issues involved in this case study will be examined. The first is if the tank was built legally, and the second is if a law was broken …

…needs for quality of the environment, Ashland's responsibility to bear the cost of the clean up, and met his moral responsibility of being completely honest. He also met his responsibilities to Ashland's stockholders by not saying anything that could be construed as admitting to any crimes that he wasn't sure Ashland committed. Work Cited: The Professional Division of The Welding Institute, Ashland Storage Tank. http://www.twi.co.uk/professional/protected/band_13/oilgas_casedown30.html